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  • Tennessee

    Tennessee

    It was a parallel move of sorts or maybe it was a demotion who knows. I was offered the job and I thought about it for a while.

    I was early on into my career. A company I was working for wanted me to move to the Home office. I was working for Black & Decker at the time.

    I said no thank you and quit. I went back to grad school. It’s not often you get an opportunity like that.

    About a year earlier for the same company, I was offered a promotion for a job in southern Georgia or maybe it was Pigeon Forge, Tennessee. When you’re in your mid 20s, your life can go in many different directions. I probably would’ve married Dolly Parton. She’s not my type. She’s better off without me.

    At this point in time, I can’t imagine myself living in rural, Georgia, fishing for bass and drinking cheap beer. I didn’t have life figured out back then.

  • Now Available in Paperback

    Now Available in Paperback

    You’re writing your autobiography. What’s your opening sentence?

    My book opens with the line-

    He was born at a very early age.

    It needs a typo or something as I usually screw up the first line anxious to see where this story goes.

    But the he second line would not read.

    When he was younger, because that was always true and would be doubly redundant.

  • Maslow’s Hierarchy on his Knees

    Maslow’s Hierarchy on his Knees

    What are three objects you couldn’t live without?

    H2O

    The natural instinct here is first to find what it means to live.

    But I think that distinction is important. For example towns such as Thunder Bay in northern Canada and Flint Michigan, residents must be creative to secure drinking water.

    Food Deserts

    For example, Suburban – Atlanta, GA:Many low-income neighborhoods south of downtown Atlanta are classified as food deserts, with high numbers of residents living over a mile from a supermarket without personal vehicles.

    I grabbed this example out of the air that there are many others. Supermarkets don’t want to develop here because of low income and it becomes a vicious circle.

    The concept of food deserts is an area I have studied. Two cities that I looked at closely, were Detroit, Michigan and Rochester, New York.

    Shelter

    We do so much in this country to placate the Rich. we need an affordable minimum wage that people can live and secure shelter.

    Religion

    I have no idea whether the concept of heaven and hell is real. I have my doubts. In a conversation with a good friend, who is the minister he told me his belief. He found the concept of heaven as a just reward on somebody else’s ledger.

    For many people air, water, food and shelter are a struggle. In a country as wealthy as ours it is embarrassing that we have people living in these conditions. We can do better.

    Food desert
  • Hyperbolic Cliche

    Hyperbolic Cliche

    What experiences in life helped you grow the most?
    Taking off the training wheels.

    I heard a good friend of mine say to me that after my divorce, I was never the same.

    OK

    Writing that I had to think about what he had to say there because it’s true. I lost some of my swagger and innocence. I’m OK with that.

    I grew into the person I needed to be. I learned I can’t always control other people, and they will be their own unique selves. All that I can do is work on me.

    Since then, it has been easier being who I am. It drew out the artist in me, the lifelong learner in me and the ever present parent.

    I took off the training wheels.